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In Tolkien's Own Words

Bilbo almost stopped breathing, and went stiff himself. He was desperate. He must get away, out of this horrible darkness, while he had any strength left. He must fight. He must stab the foul thing, put its eyes out, kill it. It meant to kill him. No, not a fair fight. He was invisible now. Gollum had no sword. Gollum had not actually threatened to kill him, or tried to yet. And he was miserable, alone, lost. A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.

A series of three vignettes, set beside the springs of Little Gelion below Himring Hill, written for Gwailome. i. Maedhros decides to build a fortress on Himring Hill (Maedhros, original characters) ii. After the Dagor Bragollach, Maedhros shows Himring to his cousin (Maedhros/Fingon) iii. In the Second Age, Elrond visits Tol Himling (Elrond, Arminas, Erestor)

Better late than never, I hope. I took the opportunity of the August 2012 Non-fiction challenge at the LotR Community Live Journal to write up some very personal thoughts of my own. I spend a part of every month, trying to write a character biography for the Silmarillion Writers Guild. Those are certainly not free of opinion, but are hopefully written in a more objective and overall more scholarly tone than this one. Anyway, for your kind perusal is this piece, halfway between a rant and a whine, but filled with not only with heart, but references to the texts.

In the earliest version of the legendarium, Vana has a more active role to play than in the later ones, in which she rates little more than a brief description. Nevertheless, being "ever-young" might not be so insignificant an attribute among the Valar as you might think...

Thank you very much to those who voted for Vana in this piece as their favourite characterization of a member of the Ainur in the Tree and Flower Award!

My Tolkien poemfic (poemfic? is that even a word? lol, it is now) - by which I mean poems I've written in Tolkien's 'verse, and perhaps even poems I've written inside my fics that I want to put in separately ^_^ also, I haven't necessarily written about all the character groups I selected yet, but most likely I will at some point. :) hope you enjoy!

The chronicles of the Elmoi - that is, the descendants of Elmo, brother of Elu Thingol and Olwe Lindaran. Peredhil, OCs and other characters will also figure in these stories, but they are chiefly about the descendants of Celeborn (grandson of Elmo) and Oropher (through speculation, son of an OC uncle of Celeborn.)

Obviously, this means Thranduil and Legolas will be around a lot, as will Celebrian, and to a lesser degree Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen. :) Most of these tales were already posted here for B2MEM 2011.

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